Thanks to Frank & Dawn Schmidt!

THANK YOU to our cousin Frank Schmidt, and his wife, Dawn, of West Bend, IA, for their very generous donation to the 2016 Schmidt Family Reunion fund! Join Frank & Dawn and make history.   Frank is the son of Ivan Schmidt, grandson of Mike Schmidt, great grandson of Henry Schmidt Sr., 2xgreat grandson of […]

Martha (Lindemann) Schmidt and her Grandchildren (1913)

(Click the image to enlarge) Thank you to our cousin Sandra (Schmidt) Banwart of Algona, Iowa for this terrific photograph of Martha Elisabeth (Lindemann) Schmidt (1837-1923) (the wife of Conrad Jacob Schmidt, one of the original Schmidt immigrants to the West Bend, Iowa area) and twenty nine of her grandchildren! This picture was taken in […]

Submit a Family Recipe & Win LoueeMoons Jewelry

Want a chance to win this beautiful, hand crafted LoueeMoons jewelry from cousin Victoria Frank? Victoria is giving away a Camano Island crab necklace and Siddhartha earrings. Just submit a family recipe to the Schmidt Family Cookbook to enter the raffle! Want to donate merchandise from your own shop to be a prize in a Schmidt Cookbook […]

Raubs of Dysart, Iowa are Part Schmidt

Franz “Frank” Raub (1849-1920) of Dysart, Iowa Do you trace your ancestry back to Franz “Frank” Raub (1849-1920) and his wife Louisa (Kersten) Raub (1852-1932), who immigrated from Machtlos, Germany to Dysart, Iowa in 1880? If so, you are invited and especially encouraged to attend the Guinness World Record-breaking Schmidt Family Reunion on July 30-31, […]